A Massively Collaborative Open History of the United States, Vol. 1: to1877
"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." -Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively written American history textbook. Over 500 historians contributed their expertise to create the book they wanted for their own students-an accessible, ......
A Massively Collaborative Open History of the United States, Vol. 2: Since 1877
"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." -Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively written American history textbook. Over 500 historians contributed their expertise to create the book they wanted for their own students-an accessible, ......
Hasidic Writing and the Making of Jewish Modernity
Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts - collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious leaders, which were mass-produced during the nineteenth century - and makes a compelling argument for reading these works as a crucial part of modern ......
How do places shape peacebuilding interventions? Put simply, they are eventful. Geographers have long argued that places are constituted by relations with the wider world, relations that are always in flux. In this theoretically and empirically innovative book Adam Moore argues that the inverse is also true: places are of generative of relations. ......
On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to ......
How do places shape peacebuilding interventions? Put simply, they are eventful. Geographers have long argued that places are constituted by relations with the wider world, relations that are always in flux. In this theoretically and empirically innovative book Adam Moore argues that the inverse is also true: places are of generative of relations. ......
On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to ......
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon reflects what Tyler Girard calls the global financial inclusion agenda. This agenda emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and quickly became a prominent feature of global economic governance. The ......
Religion, Science, and Sexuality in Modern Britain
Thinking about relationships between religion and sexuality usually focuses on what religion has to say about sex. But new ideas about sex could also transform religion itself. In Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, the new sexual sciences-from anthropological accounts of religion as rooted in ancient fertility cults to psychoanalytic ......
